Dear Anurag, We’ll certainly check this out and let you know.
Thanks. Paul Wilson APNIC On 31 May 2018, at 14:18, Anurag Bhatia wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I am trying to understand a case scenario where a Pakistan based ISP > (Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.) AS9260 is being allocated and > originating certain addresses which are officially delegated to Indian > operator (though whois record reflects Pakistan). > > > Example pool which shows this behaviour: > > 202.141.224.0/19 (visible in routing table, originated by AS9260) > Here, whois query to APNIC DB reflects: > > % [whois.apnic.net] > % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html > > % Information related to '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255' > > % Abuse contact for '202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255' is ' > [email protected]' > > inetnum: 202.141.224.0 - 202.141.255.255 > netname: MULTINETPAKISTAN > descr: Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd. > country: PK > org: ORG-MB4-AP > admin-c: AAA3-AP > tech-c: IC219-AP > mnt-by: APNIC-HM > mnt-routes: MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN > mnt-lower: MAINT-PK-MULTINETPAKISTAN > mnt-irt: IRT-MULTINETBROADBAND-PK > status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE > last-modified: 2017-11-13T13:01:16Z > source: APNIC > > > > Seems like a regular allocation to this network. But if we look at the > APNIC's delegation data ( > https://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-extended-latest), it > shows: > > grep "202.141.224.0" delegated-apnic-extended-latest > apnic|IN|ipv4|202.141.224.0|8192|20020419|allocated|A91733A8 > > > > Here the allocated country is India. Is this is a case of IP address > transfer? Or a case where APNIC might have allocated it to an Indian > network back in 2002 and later pool was returned and allocated to this > network in Pakistan? Many tools which try to map prefixes to the country > based on the RIR data will map/assume this prefix to be belonging to India > which certainly not seem to be the case here. > > Anyone with insight on this? > > -- > > > Anurag Bhatia > anuragbhatia.com > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-talk ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC [email protected] http://www.apnic.net @apnicdg
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